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‘”The thing about the team we had in ’74-75, as far as the forwards, we had pretty big guys,” Smith said. “It seemed like when we played the tough teams, we played tough. When we played the offensive teams, we played offensive. But our problem was we’d get ahead and we didn’t finish the job a lot of the times. We’d let them hang around, but that’s a bunch of young kids finding their way. … We had a bunch of kids who came together. They were a close-knit group who played hard.”‘